Want to Make Science Work Better? Let’s Talk About How. | ICOR https://incentivizingopen.org/2026/06/want-to-make-science-work-better-lets-talk-about-how/

eLife Pathways has joined @cairos.network, a dedicated space for open science projects to collaborate & solve problems together. We'll collaborate on a future of knowledge sharing centred on modular publishing, structured discourse & collective intelligence.🌐👇 elifepathways.org/blog/post-18...

CAIROS is growing - we're very excited to welcome elifepathways.org who are joining the federation! Read more in their post:

eLife Pathways is now stewarding Kotahi. In a new era of sharing, reviewing and curating research, it's important that there are open-source technologies that can experiment with more connected research outputs and support more modular, machine-readable science: elifepathways.org/blog/post-11...

this is going to be a good one!

📣 NEW PUBLIC MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT📣 📅 Jun 29 (8 am PST, 11 am EST, 4 pm BST, 5 pm CST). “Want to Make Science Work Better? Let’s Talk About How”. An overview and discussion around work looking at designing a new research paradigm. Register below: incentivizingopen.org/2026/06/want...

The full recording and meeting summary of our recent webinar, "Aligning Research Curation and Assessment," are now available. Thanks again to @katiecorker.bsky.social, Kathleen Shearer and @ludowaltman.bsky.social Waltman for their great, engaging talks! incentivizingopen.org/2026/04/alig...

Our first guest post is live! 🎉 HHMI's TAP program is using bioRxiv preprints to train early-career scientists in peer review. A great model for strengthening peer review through open preprints. Read more: openrxiv.org/peer-review-...

Excited to talk about modular science, Open Exchange Architecture, @curvenote.com and @continuous.foundation tomorrow. Will be a fun day learning all that is going on in this space. 🚀🚀

A new report "Charting New Paths: The Promise of Alternative Publishing Practices." It was good to be interviewed for this, and it nicely explores different modes of sharing and reviewing research are bubbling away. Worth a read: 🔗 doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Excited for this meeting as there has been some real progress in aligning how all contributors to the scholarly ecosystem whether they are authors, reviewers, or curators are recognized for their role in advancing knowledge. Don't forget to sign up & join the conversation! bsky.app/profile/icor...

Our next meeting tackles a big question: Can we turn reviews and curation into a reliable, trackable part of research evaluation? 📊 As research moves toward a modular, transparent future, it’s time to coordinate change through open assessment. Join us! 🚀 incentivizingopen.org/2026/03/alig...

Congratulations @elife.bsky.social! PKP is thrilled to be among your partners 🤝 PKP's Juan Pablo Alperin (@juancommander.scholcommlab.ca) shared a bit about our partnership: forum.pkp.sfu.ca/t/elife-and-... @wellcometrust.bsky.social does this --> #SustainOpen #FOSS #OpenAccess #AcademicSky

Very much looking forward to contributing to this webinar, and delighted to share the stage with two great colleagues, @katiecorker.bsky.social and Kathleen Shearer! My contribution will be about @barcelonadori.bsky.social. @cwtsnl.bsky.social

🔊Speakers include: @katiecorker.bsky.social @coar-repositories.bsky.social @ludowaltman.bsky.social JOIN US: Registration is free and we welcome anyone who wants to learn more and contribute to the discussion. Read more in the blog below. 2/2 incentivizingopen.org/2026/03/alig...

📣 NEW PUBLIC MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT📣 📅 April 7 (8am PST, 11am EST, 4pm BST, 5pm CST). We are pleased to announce our next webinar where the theme will cover all of the progress and opportunities for collective action on aligning research curation and open assessment. 1/2

2025 was a big year for us: @semble.so went from concept to working product, with 150 users in 2 months, a public API, and the wonderful atproto community already helping us build into the Atmosphere. We also co-launched @atproto.science and @cairos.network. Here's our year in review and what's next

Learn about #preprints & accelerating #OpenAccess to research in our story featuring HHMI, Gates & Astera. @hhmi-science.bsky.social, @madubs.bsky.social, @gatesfoundation.bsky.social, @openaccessmaven.bsky.social, @asterainstitute.bsky.social, @pracheeac.bsky.social sparcopen.org/impact-story...

New #NIH prize competition to identify areas of biomedical science that can benefit from replication and to recognize past replication efforts to further promote the importance of research replication: www.challenge.gov?challenge=re... Submission deadline is in one month!

Very much enjoyed last week's meeting in Cambridge about the Publish-Review-Curate (PRC) model for scholarly publishing. There were lots of highly inspiring discussions, including an important discussion about strengthening coordination between initiatives in this area. asapbio.org/reimagining-...

As 2025 draws to a close, we pause to reflect, and consider what's ahead for Open Science in the new year. #openaccess #openscience #openresearch bit.ly/455FeGu

@scietyhq.bsky.social is bringing scholarly discussion to the open social web! Through NLnet-funded work w/Bonfire, we’re linking preprint discovery & federated platforms like Mastodon & Bluesky. Bonfire v1 is live & crowdfunding: indiegogo.com/en/projects/... Community-first, ad-free #OpenSource

Nature Sci Rep publishes incoherent AI slop. eLife publishes a paper which the reviewers didn't agree with, making all the comments and responses public with thoughtful commentary. One of these journals got delisted by Web of Science for quality concerns from not doing peer review. Guess which one?

Building trust, building together: In San Diego @continuous.foundation & openRxiv hosted a workshop bringing together developers of scientific communications tools. Implementation focused, and most importantly we got to work together. Learn more: articles.continuousfoundation.org/articles/sci...

I am really proud that eLife have published this paper. It is a very nice paper, but you need to also read the reviews to understand why! 1/n

From Tools to Adoption: A Path to Modular and Interactive Scientific Publishing | ICOR https://incentivizingopen.org/2025/11/from-tools-to-adoption-a-path-to-modular-and-interactive-scientific-publishing/

🎈 Time flies! Exactly one year ago today @rorinstitute.bsky.social and @aimosinc.bsky.social launched MetaROR, a platform to publish metaresearch through the publish-review-curate approach. Over the course of the year, we published 28 articles reviewed by 59 different reviewers. [1/3]

Join us for the @icoropen.bsky.social webinar recapping the meeting, ‘From Tools to Adoption: A Path to Modular & Interactive Scientific Publishing’. Come find out how we could potentially pivot from the PDF & print based publishing... Registration details: incentivizingopen.org/2025/11/from...

📣 NEW PUBLIC WEBINAR: From Tools to Adoption: A Path to Modular and Interactive Scientific Publishing 📅 December 1st | 8 AM PDT / 11 AM EDT / 4PM GMT / 5PM CET Learn the outcomes from a recent meeting that focused on laying the foundation for machine-readable research publishing. Schedule:

Sciety is bridging preprints and open social networks. Our latest integration with #Bonfire enables you to start a discussion on Sciety and federate anywhere; meeting researchers wherever they already are. blog.sciety.org/bridging-pre... #Fediverse #ActivityPub #NLnet

We are delighted to see the growth of the ‘Publish, Review, Curate’ (PRC) initiatives in recent years!🚀 Today, we would like to spotlight Biophysics Colab @biophysicscolab.bsky.social, an international organization working to improve how original research is evaluated in biophysics buff.ly/jg42kfk

RoRI's MATTHEW project has a new reviewed preprint in @elife.bsky.social, studying the Matthew effect and early-career setbacks in research funding across 14 programmes and 6 funders ⬇️

We just posted an impact story on policies at HHMI, Gates & Astera promoting #OpenAccess #OpenScience #OpenData. Powerful signals to other funders to accelerate discovery in science. Well done @madubs.bsky.social @openaccessmaven.bsky.social @pracheeac.bsky.social! sparcopen.org/impact-story...

Navigating the ever-growing number of #OpenResearch projects is tough. It's easy for projects to fly under the radar. Good news! We just launched ICOR's Open Research Beacon (ORB)- the searchable, central hub for the global open research movement! 1/2

True transformation in publishing requires a robust and flexible infrastructure behind the scenes. Our technology arm builds, integrates and services #OpenSource technologies and infrastructure, collaborating with the wider #OpenScience community.

"For too long, we have outsourced how we define prestige to the indexers and specifically the impact factor. This has created a system in which the need to get published in prestigious journals creates bad incentives for authors to inflate their findings to tell a good story."

Publish, Review, Curate: Turning scholarly publishing on its head – COAR https://coar-repositories.org/news-updates/publish-review-curate-turning-scholarly-publishing-on-its-head/

We believe preprints and open peer review are central to reducing publishing expenses. 💰📝 We have crafted a response to NIH Request for Information on “Maximizing Research Funds by Limiting Allowable Publishing Costs,” where you can learn about the details of our recommendations. buff.ly/v9I0i9v

Rapid Science, Stratos, and ICOR response to the NIH RFI on publishing costs. "It is only through convergence of ideas and collective action that we will achieve a dynamic paradigm that will accelerate the benefits of our collective investment in science." incentivizingopen.org/2025/09/rapi...

Good metadata makes research more discoverable, connected, and useful. Our Head of Production Operations, Frederick Atherden, talks with Crossref about the metadata practices that won us the Crossref Metadata Award earlier this year. 👇

My new website is live! After nearly 20 years supporting communities, leaders & organisations, I now offer direct support to build stronger communities, nurture leadership & embed wellbeing. Let’s connect if this resonates. globaltapestryconsulting.co.uk #CommunityEngagement #Leadership

Passionate about driving positive change in science communication? We need your guidance! asapbio.org/asapbio-seek... @asapbio.bsky.social @katiecorker.bsky.social @iaincheeseman.bsky.social @ludowaltman.bsky.social

Please help us welcome @schmidtsciences.bsky.social as the newest ORFG supporting member! 🎉https://www.orfg.org/news/2025/8/4/schmidt-sciences-joins-orfg #openscience #philanthropy #openresearch #opendata #sciencefunding

“Journals and peer review are unlikely to change for the better if the companies that operate scientific indexes and citation databases continue to stifle innovation.” Read our guest post in DORA: buff.ly/EGDbskH

The Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure 2.0 has been revised by the posse and is open for comment until the end of August. Thoughts and comments welcome. openscholarlyinfrastructure.org

Now up in the #ISMBECCB2025 publishing track @mmmarksman.bsky.social is telling us about the @elife.bsky.social Publish Review Curate model. Our sister @gigabytejournal.bsky.social is grateful for their @scietyhq.bsky.social infrastructure to allow linking of their reviews to preprints

It's launch day for the Preprint Policy Framework! See - asapbio.org/preprint-pol... Learn more: asapbio.org/announcing-t...

Why link preprints and their peer reviews? Read this post from Kathleen Shearer (COAR @coar-repositories.bsky.social): coar-repositories.org/news-updates...

Like the parable of the elephant in the dark, those of us working #scholcomms point to different issues depending on our role and what parts of the system we touch. What happens if we turn on lights and examine the complete picture? strategiesos.org/systematic-p... #openscience #openresearch

We’ve arrived here, and just in time for #Metascience2025. For those who don’t know us, our goals are to collect data on the impact of open research policies and practices and connect open research to improved collaboration and outcomes. Say hi to @mmmarksman.bsky.social in London to find out more!